Advertising-card.



No. 744,158. PATENTED NOV. 1.7, 1903.

J. L. BIEDER. ADVERTISING CARD.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 11, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

Patented November 17, 1903.

PATENT Fries.

JACOB L. BIEDER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ADVERTISING-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,158, dated November 17, 1903.

Application filed July 11, 1903. $erial No. 165,115. (No model.)

1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB L. BIEDER, acitizen. of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook andState of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising-Cards, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to that class of advertising cards or devices comprising some feature or features of novelty or ornament for attracting the attention to the advertisement,

.and more especially to that species in which there is comprised in addition to the ornamental character some feature or element of utility. vention the element of utility is a barometer which indicates the condition or changes of theatmosphere by variations in the color of a piece of fabric previously treated with a suitable chemical possessing such characteristic; and my invention has for its primary object to so combine the fabric with the card and the illustration of a figure or other object on the card as to incorporate the fabricwith the picture as a harmonious part thereof and to do this by construction which will be entirely feasible, because of its simplicity, prac ticability, and cheapness.

\Vith these ends in view myinvention consists in certain features of novelty in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts by which the said object and certain other objects hereinafter appearing are attained, all as fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and more pan ticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is aface view of the entire article embodying one form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the card alone with the pictorial part of the figure thereon ready to receive the corporeal part of the object. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the entire article; and Figs. 4., 5, and 6 are corresponding views of an advertising-card embodying certain modifications of my invention, hereinafter explained.

1 is a card composed of cardboard, pasteboard, or other suitable material, on which is indicated pictorially any desired portions of a figure. In the example shown the upper part of the boys body 2 and the feet or shoes In this particular example of my in- 3 are thus represented, while the area com prising the trousers is cut away to form an aperture 4. and out-line the same as that of the trousers. On the back of the card 1 is then laid a piece of fabric 5, which has been previously saturated with the chemical susceptible to atmospheric changes in the manner before-described. On the back of the fabric 5 is then laid a sheet 6 of any suitable stiffening material, such as pasteboard or cardboard, and on the back of this is placed a wafer 7, composed of paper, with its edges projecting beyond the edges of the stiffener 6 and provided with adhesive, causing said projecting edge to adhere to the back of the card 1, and thus hold the fabric 5 and stiifener 6 over the aperture 4. Either before or after the wafer 7.is secured in place the stiffener 6 is embossed on the back throughout the area of the trousers to force the fabric through the opening 4 and to form the desired contour for producing the effect of the embossed or raised trousers on the face of the card,combining and harmonizing with the pictorial part of the figure, the embossing of the stiffener 6 through the aperture 4 serving the further useful purpose of clenching the fabric in the aperture 4., and thus binding the same and the stiffener securely in place.

In the modification shown in Figs. at to 6 of the drawings the frock of the figure is constituted by the chemically treated fabric, which projects through the card, as shown at 8, and combines and harmonizes with the balance of the figure. In this form the card is slitted to form a tongue 9 at some suitable place across the figure, such as at the lower edge of the jacket 10 and partially down the side lines of the skirt. The upper end of the skirt is then inserted from the front side of the card through this slit and is lapped over the back of the card above the slit, as shown at 11. In order that this lap 11 may be secured and at the same time covered to relieve it of its unsightliness, a. wafer 12, similar to the wafer 7, is pasted to the back of the card 1 and also to the back of the tongue 9, which is thus firmly pinched against the fabric Where it passes through the slit in the card, and thereby prevents the fabric from beingwitn drawn, the tongue 9 serving to pinch the edge IOO of the fabric against the edge of the card and hold it in the slit or aperture in substantially the same manner as the stiffener 6 pinches the fabric 5 where embossed through the aperture f in the form described with reference to Fig. 1.

This construction results in an advertisingcard which is flat and compact and not liable to be damaged in handling or shipping and above all is attractive and inexpensive in the maximum degree.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new and useful article of manufacture, an advertising-card having indicated thereon a figure or picture, an aperture formed in the card through a part of the picture, a fabric inserted through said aperture with portions thereof projecting through both faces of the card, said card comprising means for pinching the fabric against the edge of said aperture, and a wafer pasted on the back of the card over said means and fabric.

2. As a new and useful article of manufacture, an advertising-card having a picture or object illustrated thereon and provided with an aperture through a part of the picture or object, a piece of fabric inserted through said aperture and projecting through both faces of the card with one edge lapped over the back of the card, and a wafer pasted on the back of the card over said edge of the fabric and around the edges of said aperture.

JACOB L. BIEDER.

Witnesses:

F. A. HOPKINS, M. B. ALLSTADT. 

